{ "item_title" : "The Dare", "item_author" : [" Brittany Vale "], "item_description" : "Have you ever been so in love with someone that pretending not to feel anything became exhausting?How do you stay just friends with the one person who already feels like home?What if the most terrifying dare isn't the one someone else gives you - it's the one your own heart has been issuing for years?What happens when one kiss destroys three years of carefully built emotional walls?Maya Chen has rules.Carefully written. Carefully followed. Carefully designed to protect her from one very dangerous truth: She's hopelessly in love with her best friend.For three years, Maya has survived by treating her feelings like a structural problem to solve. She convinces herself that Reese Caldwell flirts with everyone. That friendship matters more than desire. That some lines should never be crossed if you want to keep the people you love.It works.Until one rooftop party.One dare.One kiss that changes absolutely everything.And suddenly, the rules that once kept Maya safe begin to feel more like a prison.The Dare is a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance about two women who have been fluent in each other for three years - and have been pretending not to be.Maya is an architect. Precise. Controlled. She builds structures designed to hold under pressure - and she has built the most elaborate one of her life entirely around the feeling she refuses to name. Reese is the person Maya organized her entire world around without admitting it. Warm, magnetic, always three steps ahead in every room - except the one that counts most.What makes this story hit so hard isn't just the romance - it's the honesty inside it. The quiet ache of wanting someone for so long that the feeling becomes part of your daily life. The tiny moments. The lingering glances. The emotional tension sitting in every silence. The unbearable closeness of almost touching. Almost saying it. Almost ruining everything.This isn't insta-love.This is: - Slow burn sapphic romance- Best friends to lovers-Slow burn Lesbian romance- Mutual pining- Emotional yearning- Queer contemporary romance- Intense chemistry- Soft vulnerability- Deep emotional intimacy- One-bed emotional tension energy without the clich - Women loving women romance with real emotional depthMaya and Reese feel painfully real. They are two women trying to protect each other while accidentally breaking their own hearts in the process.This is the book for you if you've ever: Loved someone quietly, carefully, for longer than was probably wiseFelt the exhaustion of pretending you don't feel what you feelWondered what would happen if you just stopped looking awayNeeded a romance where the emotional depth matches the heat...then this book is going to live in your head rent-free.The Dare doesn't rush. It earns every moment. The kiss lands with the full weight of everything that led to it. The morning after glows with the warmth of two people finally on the same page. And the final scene - Maya, coffee, Reese's thumb tracing her wrist at a kitchen table - is the kind of ending you'll think about for days.If you've been waiting for a sapphic romance that trusts you to feel everything - that doesn't flinch from the long, quiet ache of wanting someone who is already your whole life - The Dare is your next read.GRAB your COPY NOW and find out what happens when the dare was never really about the game.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/087/9798180878373_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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